We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.   

The opportunity:

Lead React Developer required to join VML’S world class teams who are working to make our clients happy. We are looking for a talented, enthusiastic, focused, eye for detail, professional. Keen to learn and to challenge for smarter ways of doing things; a team player proud of their work who wants to share it. You like working in a fast-paced environment and are ready to inspire outstanding online shopper experiences for consumers and brands, no matter what product, service, sector, device or channel!

You will have a customer-first mindset, with the maturity and initiative to do what it takes keep our clients happy, including some working at client locations. When our clients win – we win!

What you’ll get to do:

• Create prototypes and high quality production-ready React/NextJS front-end single page applications
• Architectural decisions to be agreed with Front-end Architect, then implemented and maintained on the project to ensure consistency and quality
• Drivie forward the quality – in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, code reviews
• Engage with the client to understand new requirements or issues and be able to clearly and credibly present potential solutions
• Lead an Agile workstream of front-end developers on a project, contribute to daily stand-ups, sprint planning and estimates
• Build modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
• Be comfortable with a mix of Team Lead responsibilities, effective management of workload, mentoring junior members of the team
• Work with the design teams to create optimal front-end user experiences, leading to driving greater conversions
• Be involved in existing and new integrations for the platform
• Have full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance, expansion and scaling
• Stay current with evolving standards and technologies, learning new skills as needed
• Support of the recruitment process in technical tests and team fit assessments

What you should have:

• Commercial experience of hands on React development, with a solid understanding of the core concepts
• Commercial experience of serverless development and server-side development with NextJS
• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS) and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry defined coding standards
• Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation, refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular, and extendable code
• Experience of pair programming
• Extensive testing and debugging abilities using the browser console and other tools
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security and usability
• Experience of linter/formatter tooling eg ESlint/Prettier etc
• Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders
• Proficient understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility issues
• Commercial experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing (we use Jest, React-testing-libraries and Cypress)
• Experience of using CSS pre-processors, CSS-in-JS (we use SASS and styled components)
• Solid understanding of state management technologies/approaches i.e. Redux, Flux
• Commercial Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
• Commercial experience working on SPA solutions, ideally within e-commerce
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Grunt and webpack
• Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.
• Experience of mentoring junior members of the team
• Experience in component development with Storybook
• Great attitude, self-motivated, strong work ethic, with strong ownership
• Ability to converse confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Have experience of integrating with a variety of external, 3rd party systems

You will collaborate with our UK project team, so we’ll need you to be available until 18:00 PL time.

Bonus points if you have:

• Additional Commercial eCommerce platform experience – Magento/Hybris /Shopify
• Experience of working with other CMS platforms such as AEM, Sitecore or SFCC
• Experience in building rapid prototypes
• Any knowledge of Nodejs, Express, SQL, Lambda, AWS
• Experience creating site architecture diagrams, wireframes, process flows
• Experience of working on Java/Node/C#/PHP projects would be beneficial 

What we offer:

• Salary depending on presented skills: 27 000 - 33 000 PLN net on B2B contract
• Fully remote job as well as possibility to visit ourr offices in Poznań, Katowice and Bydgoszcz 
• Work equipment with delivery to your door 
• Opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world 

Please note that this job is a full-time position located in Poland, but the selection process will be conducted in English. 

Please send over your CV in English. 

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